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BBCL3601: Daniel and Revelation as Apocalypses
2024 unit information
The books of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible and Revelation in the New Testament are the only apocalypses found in any western Bible. In this unit students will apply advanced methods in analysis of biblical texts (literary, thematic, linguistic, and text critical) in order to analyse these texts in the context of the most relevant extra-biblical apocalyptic texts, such as 1 Enoch, 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch.
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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BBCL2603 or BBCL2607 or BBCL2609 or BBCL2610 or BBCL3602 or HBRW2623 or HBRW2625 or HBRW2632 or HBRW3601 or HBRW3602 or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Biblical Studies and Classical Hebrew or Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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BBCL2006 or BBCL2606 |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Analyse the canonical apocalypses Daniel and Revelation in the light of the wider literary genre “apocalypse.”
- LO2. Discuss and problematize questions of defining a literary genre.
- LO3. Relate non-canonical compositions to the study of biblical texts.
- LO4. Conduct independent research relating canonical and non-canonical texts.
- LO5. Discuss the most important non-canonical apocalypses.
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